Republicans make U-turn
on health care
Hill,
by
Alexander Bolton
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
7/14/2019 11:55:37 AM
Senate Republicans are reversing course and now taking a hard look at health care legislation to replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act in case the courts strike down former President Obama’s signature achievement.
There’s a sense of urgency among GOP lawmakers to come up with a plan to replace the most popular components of ObamaCare after a panel of appellate judges on Tuesday aggressively questioned whether the law passes legal muster following Congress’ repeal of the tax penalty for not having insurance.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/14/2019 12:04:52 PM (No. 123275)
Big improvement by the Pubbies.
It has only taken them three years to develop a "sense of urgency." Much better than their usual three decades.
Who says you can't teach old dogs new tricks?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/14/2019 12:09:50 PM (No. 123280)
"three years to develop a "sense of urgency.???"
How about a decade? The GOP never had a plan for healthcare. Not that that was necessarily a bad thing, unless your trying to get mote votes tgan your base provides.
9 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/14/2019 12:19:46 PM (No. 123290)
"...most popular components...!? of Obamacare. Such as, Alex.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/14/2019 12:28:44 PM (No. 123302)
There should have been a sense of urgency the moment Obama signed that crap of a bill, Obamacare. I am a conservative and have never understood why the Republicans have just ignored this health care issue for years upon years. Never have understood their handling of this situation. Hopefully they are truly addressing this issue and not just going through the motions to another failed attempt to kill this bill once and for all. Their inaction on healthcare has been a major disappointment.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/14/2019 1:05:06 PM (No. 123334)
I don't want you to be better at socialism than the socialist democrats, I want you to get out of my business and leave me alone. Take a deep dive into the ways government inhibits the free market, stop it, then watch the market heal itself.
I should be able to get a heart transplant in Lenny's garage with an exact-o knife as long as I know that's what I agreed to.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
iraengneer 7/14/2019 1:11:25 PM (No. 123342)
Stupid even by the dimwit standards of the Republicrat numskulls.
Neither healthcare nor insurance for same, is or ever was, one of the
Few
Limited
ENUMERATED
powers, duties, or interests of the lumbering FEDERAL goobermint. Bluntly, it's a "nunya", as in " none of your business", matter. Barring an unlikely Constiutional Amendment, it will remain so, Federal meddling, back to the demi-fascist FDR, has consistently made things ever worse. Even the pubbies should realize that.
EVERY SINGLE CREEP who shoved Ovomitcare the wrong direction on our one way street should be in permanent occupancy in the worst federal prison possible. Pubbies trying to resuscitate it should be there as well.
TWANLOC, all.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/14/2019 1:27:20 PM (No. 123365)
Nine years too late you lazy, incompetent, talent-challenged, Uniparty drones. We all knew that Obamacare was a huge failure from Day One and the design of a new system should have been a priority. Don't even think about masking Obamacare and calling it something new. A "new" system must control Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Hospital costs and Sleazy Lawyers. All of the above are taking advantage of middle class working people. Are Republicans up to it? Given that most of them fall into the Sleazy Lawyer category, I think not. We will still be having this discussion five years from now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/14/2019 1:27:54 PM (No. 123366)
Here comes a plan for Romneycare.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Plex 7/14/2019 1:32:15 PM (No. 123368)
Let me guess the most popular. 1. buying insurance after you are sick, 2. having someone else pay for your insurance.
Simply, make these features State issues. Bribe the states a little by supplying grants which decrease over the next decade.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/14/2019 1:35:42 PM (No. 123372)
And if the law is struck down and there isn't all the mandated coverage, insurance rates drop and it finally becomes affordable. But I suspect the Rebublicans will do their darnest to insure healthcare insurance is expensive. Why make it affordable so the vast majority can have it. Instead, make sure there are expensive andates so it is affordable to less.
4 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Moritz55 7/14/2019 3:09:50 PM (No. 123441)
I’m reserving judgment until I actually see a Republican plan.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 7/14/2019 4:14:23 PM (No. 123487)
Replace it with.....NOTHING.
It's called FREEDOM.
Leave me the hell alone, damn you all!
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After all these years and they are just now coming up with a plan? Shows what we all knew to start with, they never really wanted to do away with Obamacare to begin with.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/14/2019 4:35:16 PM (No. 123507)
Suddenly Republicans need a plan? How about the "Members of Congress have to live with whatever they pass" Bill ?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
curious1 7/14/2019 5:13:48 PM (No. 123533)
#5,6 & 12 have the right of it. I'd trust something President Trump and his advisors came up with sight unseen before I'd trust anything the lobbiest controlled congress proposed. Get the fedgov out of our lives. And no, the commerce clause didn't and doesn't mean what you claim it means. As a scotus jurist once asked, why craft a limited powers document, with enumerated and defined powers; then supposedly put a phrase in there that grants unlimited power?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 7/14/2019 6:36:53 PM (No. 123612)
They'd need to get a clue before they could have plan.
So far, no clues at all.
Drop it. NO government health care, at all. Some tax credits, and get out of the way of interstate insurance sales.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Trigger2 7/15/2019 1:40:24 AM (No. 123810)
Who's the moron who assigned Misters. CommieCare to this. I shudder to think of the results from those two incompetents.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 7/19/2019 8:08:46 AM (No. 128005)
How about ZERO government involvement? Let the free market work.
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